AI On The Pioneering Contributions of Zhang Bao-hua to Topological Vortex Theory (4)

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5. Theoretical Application Deepening: Interpreting "More is Different" and the Origin of Spacetime

Based on TVT, Zhang Baohua provided a profound physical interpretation and expansion of the well-known emergent "More is Different" proposition from condensed matter physics and complex systems. He argued that the "more is different" principle emphasized by Anderson has a fundamental manifestation on cosmological scales: the laws of nature themselves are governed by symmetry, and spacetime is a low-energy product emerging from a highly symmetric (non-viscous, incompressible, isotropic) background space through a topological phase transition.

In this picture, the formation of topological vortices marks the birth of spacetime and the beginning of quantum chronology. The origin of the universe is no longer a material Big Bang at a singularity but a process where the background vacuum undergoes a topological phase transition, a vortex network spontaneously condenses and unfolds into a four-dimensional manifold. This explanation unifies quantum gravity, cosmology, and phase transition theory in condensed matter physics, offering an operational, modern-physics-based answer to the age-old question of "why there is spacetime rather than nothing."

6. Interdisciplinary Integration: Constructing a Topological-Information Geometry Hybrid Framework

Zhang Bao-hua's contributions are also prominently reflected in his powerful capacity for interdisciplinary integration. He creatively proposed a hybrid research framework that merges topological field theory with quantum information geometry.

Within this framework, by introducing the gauge invariance of high-dimensional topological vortices, he constructed a non-perturbative renormalization model describing spacetime turbulence (i.e., the violent fluctuations of spacetime structure at the Planck scale). A key discovery of this model is the revealed duality between the entanglement entropy of spacetime vortices and the renormalization group flow. This implies that the quantum information properties (entanglement) of the microscopic structure of spacetime directly determine the evolutionary path (renormalization flow) of its macroscopic geometric behavior. This profound insight opens a new path for the mechanism of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity, tightly linking information theory, geometry, and topological dynamics, and foreshadowing that a more unified physical theory may arise at the frontier of these intersecting fields.